NextEra Pushes Renewable Plants to Fuel Explosive Demand From AI
- NextEra added record renewable energy to its plans last year
- AI’s rise sparked biggest power demand jump in a generation
NextEra plans to build more than 3 gigawatts of clean power generation for data centers, Kujawa said.
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The amount of electricity sucked up by artificial intelligence is expanding rapidly, with high stakes for tech firms desperate to hook up new data centers to power produced by wind and solar farms, according to NextEra Energy Inc.
“There is an enormous amount of demand being driven across the US economy by the growth in data centers, driven by a lot of things of course, but specifically generative AI,” Rebecca Kujawa, head of NextEra’s renewable development unit, said in a Thursday earnings call. “That growth is pretty explosive at this point.”